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Veterinary Pharmacovigilance: Adverse Reactions to Veterinary Medicinal Products is an in-depth examination of veterinary pharmacovigilance, looking at the scientific methodologies involved, the role of regulatory agencies and legislation, and the underpinning science. Edited by a renowned expert with over 20 years of experience in the field, it draws together the expertise of authors from around the world.
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| Title of eBook: Veterinary Pharmacovigilance: Adverse Reactions to Veterinary Medicinal Products | |
| Release Date: 11-24-2009 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Veterinary Pharmacovigilance: Adverse Reactions to Veterinary Medicinal Products
Chapter One
Elements of veterinary pharmacovigilanceK.N. Woodward
Pharmacovigilance in the human medicines sector is a well-established discipline. So well established in fact that reports of adverse reactions to medicinal products are relatively common in general and specialist medical journals either as case reports or as detailed epidemiological studies. There are numerous text books on the topic or on related areas such as pharmacoepidemiology and a number of dedicated journals such as Drug Safety and Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, while publications such as the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology also regularly cover the subject. So what exactly is pharmacovigilance?
Pharmacovigilance has been described as:
'... a neologism created by the European Union to cover procedures involved in the detection of unwanted adverse effects causally related to the administration of therapeutic drugs' (Fletcher, 2000).
Regardless of whether or not the author intended a degree of cynicism or even sarcasm in this comment, it is quite a useful description, if not a definition. However, the term 'therapeutic drugs' is probably better replaced by medicinal products or, for the purposes of this book, veterinary medicinal products, as the discipline of pharmacovigilance covers the whole panoply of agents, including therapeutic and prophylactic drugs, vaccines and other immunological products and drugs used to alter physiological status such as those used to synchronise oestrus or promote growth in animals and drugs used as contraceptive agents in humans.
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